> AI is going to hit that limit. And there is no way for the AI to gain more knowledge without actually doing lab experiments

That's a big claim. I believe on the other hand that biology is applied chemistry which is applied quantum physics. And frontier models are so good at biology + biochemistry + chemistry + quantum physics that it's bound to trickle down into biology by sheer knowledge.

And secondly, even without pipettes i'm pretty sure computer simulation can teach us a tremendous amount still.